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the crime family

an au meme

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey, that’s great. But its very, very unpredictable. There’s so many ways you can screw it up.

Paul Castellano

In this family of yours, everyone plays their part. From the getaway drivers, to the big boss on top, to the bodyguards, to the housewives, everyone has to play their role in order to keep this family afloat. Whether you luxuriate in the danger, the thrill and the money, or you've got your apprehensions about the whole thing, we're sure this family is glad to have you around. So long as you weren't thinking about leaving. You weren't thinking about leaving, were you?

No? Good. That's what we thought.

The meme can be set in the future, in present day, or in the past! There's crime in all countries all across the world, but you could also AU a whole new world for this.

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the (potential) roles

The Boss. The one in charge. The one everyone listens to and looks up to. The one who has to make the tough calls when the going gets rough.
The Right Hand. The Boss wouldn't be anywhere without you, his most trusted confidant. You know everything there is to know and then some. Take this trust for what it is or abuse it to your own ends. We won't tell.
The Hitman. The Boss points and you pull the trigger. It's not up to you to decide who lives and who dies. No one asked you to think. Just shoot, wipe off your gun, and move on to the next one.
The Getaway Driver. You think the Boss drives themself? Of course not. That what you're here for. Take people where they need to go, don't ask questions, always turn a blind eye to what goes on the backseat. It's simple.
The Tech Guy. You spend most of your time developing cool guns and even cooler gear all while being the voice in the earpiece of someone who's on the go. It sounds like a dream for some, sans the fact that you're working for a crime family. That commits crimes.
The Bodyguard. Whether you're assigned to the boss themself or some other important member of the family, your only role is to keep them safe.
The Boss's Daughter/Son/Child. The forbidden fruit, entirely off-limits. Regardless of your personal feelings about your crime family, the Boss will kill a man where he stands just for looking at you. Have fun trying to date.
The Trophy Wife/Husband/Spouse. Eye candy. The Boss walks in with you on their arm and everyone turns and looks.
The Undercover. You're only here to gain information to take this family down. Try not to get caught along the way.
The Interrogator — When the Boss needs to extract information, he calls you in. You're an expect at getting people talk.
The Grunt. In order to move up the ranks, you need to do whatever needs done, no matter how mundane it is. Load the guns, mop the floors, fix the cars...
The Cop. While you're not technically not a member of the family, you've been watching these guys for a while. Your file on these people grows larger by the day.
The Witness — You saw something you weren't supposed to see and now you're wrapped up in all of this.
The Rival — Romeo and Juliet style rivals, but less love and more murder... Or, more love and less murder? Or murder and love in equal amounts?
Wildcard — There are plenty of other roles to consider! The entertainment, the call girls/boys/people, the crime family elder, the new recruit, the doctor, the dirty lawyer... Have fun with it!

the (potential) scenarios

Shootout/ Murder —Pew-pew.
Act Natural — Sure, you're a crime family, but you could at least give the patina of being on the straight and narrow. Host a birthday party, or a gala, or a charity event. Something that normal wealthy families that totally aren't involved in a life of crime do.
Get Out — You want out of this life. The death, the misery, the danger... it's not for you. But everyone knows leaving isn't an option. Once you're in, you're in for life.
Death In The Family — Someone of significance has died, and everyone's feeling it. Maybe their death solidifies your goal of revenge, or maybe it's close to scaring you straight.
Injury — After a crime goes wrong, you're bedridden for a bit until you get your strength back.
Between Jobs — Life in the crime world can't all be shoot-outs and heists. Sometimes, you've just got some downtown. What happens behind closed doors on a slow day?
Forbidden Love —There are a lot of ways to go with this. The bodyguard crushing on the Boss's child? Undercover cop falls for the Boss's unhappy spouse? Interrogator with a secret spot for the accidental witness?
A Job Well Done — After a job goes well, it's time for a celebration! Drinks for everyone!
A Failure — Anything that could've gone wrong went wrong. You're lucky to have made it back with your life. Boy, is the Boss going to have some thoughts about this...
Kidnapping — Bringing a rival gang member back to your home for information? Ransom? Leverage?
Fraud —It takes a few lies to make some money. Fraudulent crimes include fake identities, lying about who you are, lying about past accomplishments, etc.
Arson — Burn the evidence. Leave it all behind.
Put Out A Hit — Someone wants you dead. Maybe you want someone else dead. The end goal is death either way.
A Coup — This Boss is messing up and they're messing up badly. Someone else should be in charge. Someone who knows what they're doing. Someone who deserves it. Someone like you.
Wildcard — Think of a scenario that best suits you and have fun with it!

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[ Deeeefinitely the boss' son and honestly, I'm down for any scenario excluding the failure route since that would just shatter this man. ]

{{there have been weirder AU's, I'm sure. cop, witness, rival are all roles I can see for Cas. what would you be interested in?}}

[ I've long-played a scenario where someone stands in for Henriksen cos holy fuck, the sexual tension they had between them. We could play out the shifter/bank-robber episode slightly more ~natural where it was actually a mostly normal job-gone=wrong and, if you're down, Dean's father will have the squeeze on notable figures so he can come out clean? -- after some interaction. The media/public wouldn't know Dean was ever at the scene.

So TW: Police corruption, for sure. ]

{{thought about this more than I probably should today and I thought Cas also could be on assignment as an undercover cop - which, granted, is a completely different vibe? I am down for anything, really, so if you want to set the scene and start us off, please go right ahead. Combining things will probably lead to (a) longer thread/s but I will backtag forever and would love to develop this. I mean some nice good ol' betrayal/misplaced trust, a dash of falling for your mark, and lots of tension in several flavors ... }}

[ Vampire mafia boss, anyone? ]

[ she was the daughter of "the lion" and the head of the calabrese crime family in the n52, but she's carmine falcone's daughter as far as i'm concerned. always down for AUs that involve her growing up in the falcone family, also

catmasked if the movie's more your jam. idk!! ]

[ She is the granddaughter of a supernatural criminal and is set to inherit the family business so -

More info in journal! ]

( being a hitman who doesn't want to kill anymore is practically canon for chris, so the secretly trying to get out of a crime family works beautifully.

also, chris' dad is basically a pacific northwestern crime lord already (imagining this wrinkly fuck as the Big Boss in this AU works so well but it's also gross and we hate him). Crime Boss August probably wouldn't give a shit if someone tried to date his son... unless it's a dude. then he'd have to kill him. and then also, probably, kill chris.

so the hitman, the bodyguard, or the boss's son! )

Edited 2022-12-05 15:14 (UTC)

( real: eddie being a nosy journalist, seeing something he shouldn't have, and being absorbed into this crime family as an alternative just being killed because he has value or something. probably a getaway driver, an interrogator, or an undercover. pretty low-level.

fake: alien crime family trophy wife (is the funniest thing i've ever written) — venom and his family of symbiotes out on klyntar doing crime and raiding planets/spaceships for Crime Reasons, and finding your character along the way, with eddie being a part of the GACF* because he looks cool on venom's arm.

**gooey alien crime family)

((I kind of want to chuck a morbid little 10yo at him, just to force Eddie to cope with keeping a kid out of danger - it sounds like an absolutely goofy disaster waiting to happen. Interested?))

( oh my god, i love this idea!! personally, he'd probably want NO PART of this life of crime, but he'd be willing to stay if it meant keeping someone else safe and distracted while he finds a way to get them both out of this.

like, shh, let's not look at the murder happening, let's watch silly youtube videos instead [meanwhile she's probably WAY more interested in the death anyway]. )

((Especially hilariously complicated if she's the niece of the big boss too, amirite-- no easy way to bail and she may not even want to go. Sounds extremely excellent!

What kind of sitch do we wanna start them off in?))

( act natural could be a good start? eddie being assigned to keep an eye on her during like a charity event or a ball or something, where things eventually go awry and turn into a shoot-out because, you know, crime life. )

[Uncle "Maxwell" often threw the odd party... typically in the effort to distract from him getting some "business" done. Today's party seemed to be a general holiday party, and was full of spiked eggnog, loud people in fancy dresses and suits, and obnoxiously brilliant and cheerful decorations.

Wendy herself was present - this building was one of her father's homes, after all - and seemed to simply be ignored as she sat and sipped at a warm hot chocolate that was mercifully not alcoholic. She was wearing a charming little holiday cardigan as well as her mourning veil, which she always insisted on wearing during these parties.]

It's your turn to mind me again?

[Wendy vaguely acknowledges Eddie - she's gotten used to her sometimes bodyguard!]

[ the westeros crime world au, anyone? ]

[ Uh, it's canon! M/M for shipping, otherwise OTA ]

[ He will ship either way ]

((I mean... some people do think he's the head of a crime family because all the sons calls him "daddy".))

{{Prohibition-era. A New York city heiress whose privilege has resulted in the kind of ennui that leads a girl to make friends in low places. Role: The trophy girlfriend (optional drama: she might be engaged to a nice, normal guy who can't give her all the diamonds, drugs and danger that her crime boss boyfriend can; good chance she's stepping out on the boss too, when she gets bored or bratty). Not an especially nice gal, all told. .}}

Edited 2022-12-03 05:47 (UTC)

[ the boss, the right hand, the bodyguard, the undercover, the cop, the rival. good with any scenario! ]

[ perfect time to dust off my Criminal AU for her. less crime family and more just criminal enterprise. TLDR: Brianna ditches Jedi training to be a smuggler, starts taking shadier jobs, eventually pisses off a syndicate who try to kill her, she turns around and kills the boss and takes over the syndicate. she's more chaotic neutral than fully dark (yet), only cares about the war insomuch as what she can profit off of and isn't aligned with anyone, though she does have a bit of a soft spot for family. also tends to quietly be on the hunt for Force relics and similar rarities, mostly to keep them out of Snoke's hands; related, she wears a pendant that prevents her mind from being entered/read, at the cost of making it more difficult for her to use the Force.

down for all manner of shenanigans and mixing canons, open to additional divergence (ie. dark empress Reys, smuggler Poes) and/or mixing timelines. also open to a modern AU variation if someone doesn't want to play in a galactic sandbox. should go without saying but canon, cross canon, AUs, OCs welcome. ]

(ota for gen, 25+ for shipping! i feel like undercover/bodyguard would be a fun combination for her.)

[ info here.

likely to be the right hand, hitman, getaway driver, bodyguard, the interrogator, or any combo of those. ]

[This young girl is absolutely, one hundred percent, the boss' beloved niece. Or at least, the surviving niece. She's only a little kid, surely she doesn't know much about the business... right?

Do you want to take that gamble? Or maybe you're hoping to curry some favor with the boss by helping her out... either way, she is a very creepy, quiet little kid and it's not going to be the easiest experience.]

[The boss' daughter probably.]

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